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Updated: September 18, 2025
So the Dainagon watched, and again he saw her come, very poorly clad, and with bare feet that shrank from the snow in her grass sandals, bowed beneath a heavy load of wood upon her shoulders, and her face flat and homely like a girl of the people, and her eyes blind and shut. And as she came she sang this. "The Eternal way lies before him, The way that is made manifest in the Wise.
Now, as he listened, there came through the wood a maiden, bare footed, save for grass sandals, and clad in coarse clothing, and she came up and passed them, still singing. And when she was past, His Majesty put up his hand to his eyes, like one dreaming, and said; "What have you seen?" And the Dainagon answered;
This sounded far off like the whispering of rain when it falls in very small leaves, and presently it died away, and a voice followed after, singing, alone in the woods, so that the silence appeared to have been created that such a music might possess the world. So the Emperor stopped instantly, and the Dainagon behind him and he heard these words.
Then Ikenoshoji, starting from his real dream, nine times prostrated himself before the god, and hastened to the dwelling of his master. Erelong the wife of Takakura Dainagon found herself with child; and after the ten happy months she bore a son with painless labor. It was strange that the infant had upon his forehead, marked quite plainly and naturally, the Chinese character for "rice."
So the Dainagon looked upon all the daughters of the ministers and high officials, but he found none that he thought worthy to become the wife of his son. But the young Hangwan, learning that he himself had been a gift to his parents from Tamon-Ten, resolved to pray to that deity for a spouse; and he hastened to the temple of the divinity, accompanied by Ikenoshoji.
So when the sun was high His Majesty, again followed by the Dainagon, went through the forest swiftly, and like a man that sees his goal, and when they reached the place where the maiden went by, His Majesty straitly commanded the Dainagon that he should draw apart, and leave him to speak with the maiden; yet that he should watch what befell.
The Heart that loves reveals itself to man. For now he draws nigh to the Source. The night advances fast, And lo! the moon shines bright." And to the Dainagon it seemed a harsh crying nor could he distinguish any words at all. But what His Majesty beheld was this. The evening had come on and the moon was rising. The snow had gone.
And the Emperor ordered a Dainagon , whose name was Yukinari, to restore the tablets. But Yukinari was afraid to perform the command of the Emperor, by reason of what had befallen other men; and, fearing the divine anger of Kobodaishi, he made offerings, and prayed for some token of permission.
When the radiance and the vision were withdrawn and only the moon looked over the trees, His Majesty rose upon his feet, and standing on the snow, surrounded with calm, he called to the Dainagon, and asked this; "What have you seen?" "Augustness, nothing but the country wench and moon and snow." "And heard?" "Augustness, nothing but the harsh voice of the wood-cutter's daughter." "And felt?"
The famed Takakura Dainagon, whose other name was Kane-ie, was so rich that he had treasure-houses in every direction. He owned one precious stone that had power over fire, and another that had power over water. Of all that a man might have in this world, he wanted nothing except an heir, and he had no other cause for sorrow.
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